Home Service Red Cross Supports Soldiers Families in San Antonio
San Antonio's Home Service chapter led by a 25-member volunteer corps extends care to enlisted men’s families. They provide emergency relief, medical aid, housing, and guidance on allotments and insurance, while connecting with returning soldiers and supporting bereaved families. The group has helped over a hundred local families and assisted 300 transient ones, spending about $3000 in relief.
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Red Cross San Antonio chapter aids destitute soldiers' families
The Home Service Division of the San Antonio chapter, American Red Cross, under chairman Mrs. George Gillette, has performed notable relief work for families of soldiers in service. Alfred Fairbank of St. is noted in praise.
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Kuation
San Antonio
American Red Cross
George Gillette
Alfred Fairbank
Trained workers named in local roster list
The text lists numerous individuals including Kampmann Frank Lewis W B Lupe J H Lapham Lewis Maverick Hugh McLellan R W Middlebrook G H Moody Talbot La Prelle Lee Ransom Emma Reed W B Russ R N Silsbee A B Spencer B F Stout Tyle and several Mrs figures and Miss Carruth in a compiled roster of trained workers.
Giving Away Old Clothes Then and Now
A guidance note on donating worn garments to the needy urging prompt disposal of surplus wear. Warns against overusing items for tasks that ruin their future value, and cautions about small parts like lace or buttons being kept unused for years. Mention of a Boston Tran sprint quote appears as an abrupt, unrelated memory.
Poilus Learn Catch From American Aces In France
An Army Y M C A letter describes Americans teaching French troops to catch oranges tossed from a delivery truck near the front. Americans showed a nine out of ten catching rate, while French averages were lower. The note praises U S morale and feeding, with a light joke about a dream and a joke from an officer.
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Navy
Florida
France
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Army's New Truck Ships Easy To Frontline Use
Washington May 19. The army reports that the standardized Truck B cuts cargo space to a quarter, from 1000 to 250 cubic feet per truck when shipped disassembled. The Quartermasters Corps oversees production from 146 factories, delivers to camps or ports, and its simple design allows rapid in-field assembly and repair at French ports.
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Shipping Board
Quartermasters’ Corps
General Pershing
Motors Division
Atlantic
France
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George Gilette
W. A. Adams
Roy Beitel
Ernest Brown
Camp
Tom Campbell
RK Ll Dinwiddie
Emil Frank
Sam Cleaves
Elizabeth George
J. B. Harper
Ike
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RED Cross Civilian Relief Department
Ron-De-Voc Park
Manning B. Pletz
Tom
Papa
Boston
Boston ‘Transcript
Dixie Harris
Variety Four
Jack Kennedy & Co
Helen Ward
Willard Mack
Lottie Mayer & Company
Johnny Singer
Arizona
Frank
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